Reading Suggestions for Busy Moms

As we successfully juggle successful careers and family, we can always use some tips and especially some humor. Here are some of my favorite books on the subject of balance.

Last holiday season I read two books from local authors, and I highly recommend them. Carol Briney, a local speaker, trainer, and organizing consultant wrote A Guide to Organized and Stress Free Holidays, I read this last year right after Christmas and got a lot of helpful tips that I plan to incorporate this season. This can be ordered online at www.universalor.com.

Two women from the North Hills, Mary Jo Rulnick and Judith Burnett-Schneider have co-authored The Frantic Womans Guide to Life which has some of the best tips I have ever come across with a years worth of hints, tips and tricks to sanity while trying to balance it all. The book is available at Borders.

Cindy Glovinsky has written two great books, Making Peace With The Things in Your Life, and 100 Simple Ways to Live Clutter-Free Every Day. They are both in paperback and available at most bookstores locally.

If you are like me and like to laugh about how you are so busy that you forget where you are going most of the time, try reading I've Found my Keys, now Where's my Car? by Florence Littauer. She is one of my favorite authors. I have read many of her books and enjoy them on cd as well. You can find her books on her website, www.classservices.com or on www.amazon.com. She also has written some great books on family issues, like Get a Life Without the Strife and After Every Wedding Comes a Marriage. If you suffer with the blues and/or depression, she wrote Blow away the Black Clouds, but my favorite of all of her books is Silver Boxes. This story is about our words and how we can use them to build people up or tear them down. I have it on tape and give it as a gift to all of the Incredible Mom winners.

Another writer you will love is Karen Scalf Linamen. You can find books by Karen at your Christian bookstore, or on www.amazon.com. I have read and laughed my way through three of her books. Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt, Sometimes I Wake Up Grumpy and Sometimes I Let Him Sleep, Welcome to the Funny Farm: The All-True Misadventures of a Woman on the Edge. I just did a search for her on Amazon and found she has a new one; I'm Not Suffering from Insanity...I'm Enjoying Every Minute of It!

I just ordered it, Ill let you know!

Beth Caldwell is the mom of two teenage sons, the Publisher of The Pittsburgh Kids Directory, and works as a mentor for women through www.positivemoms.com.